June 12, 2011

[Travel Diary] Across the Causeway

Finally went for the long awaited JB trip with my colleagues on Sat!

We were supposed to meet 9.30am at Kranji MRT stn to take CW1 into JB. By the time we reached, the queue for the bus was already snaking halfway across the front of the station.

Waited about 45 mins for the bus and we managed to get a seat :D It took extemely long to make the u-turn towards the checkpt and when we looked across the st, the queue was already beyong the train station.



Anyway it only cost $0.80 for the bus ride :D



Happy looking pops boarding the bus :)




The ride to Sg checkpt and clearing the immigration was a breeze, took barely half hr (including the huge u-turn that the bus had to make), but the ride to M'sia custom was @)$(*%#&@.

We were stuck for more than half hr on the bus and we're barely halfway there. So we got off and started walking.



Only to turn ard and see that almost everyone's doing that so it looked like a mass exodus of some sort :X

And all the buses ended up practically empty and the bus drivers even came down to talk to each other because the traffic was DEAD STILL.



We probably saved 3 hrs by walking that 15 minutes. And the walk was seriously an experience :p

Took another 45 mins to clear the immigration apprantly because of their new index fingers scanning system.

Officially in JB ard 1+ and headed str to Ya Wang Restaurant!





I took a BEFORE pic but accidenally deleted it -_-

Anw all these food for RM140 and it fed 7 pax to the brim! :)

Took a cab to KSL City for RM8 and our 1st stop was MANI-PEDI!



Jess and I did the new colour from OPI's Pirates Series and Debs did her (usual) gothic color :p



The service was ok lah, they did what they sld do for classic mani and pedi but I didnt really enjoy the entire experience because they has so many customers I felt that they were in a rush.

Still, it was a full set for RM60, nth much to complain abt :x

The guys wanted to watch X-Men there but the timing didnt match so they ended up at KBox Plus. A medium room for 7 pax (incl 1 jug of drink) costs RM90. And they had THREE mics in the room. And the rooms and toilets were super clean! Damn worth it :D

Dinner was at a seafood hawker center.



All food photos on FB. We had Baby squid, cereal prawns, salted egg fish slices, kang kong, xiao bai cai, sting ray, butter cray fish (abt 2 crayfish for each person), coconut juices, sugar cane juices, all for RM230.



Will try the crab nxt time :D

After the meal, we went for massage opposite the hawker centre





Had leg massage and upper back massage for RM54.

The experience was ok lah, preferred the one in Thailand :)

And we jostled back to Sg at 1120pm, in time for the last bus back and the last train from Kranji.

I'm looking forward to another trip !!

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